Chalke Talks for SPEAKER: Ben Macintyre

• SAS: ROGUE HEROES
  Ben Macintyre ( 2017 )
  Published: 22nd Mar 2021

  The history of the SAS is an exhilarating tale of fearlessness and heroism, recklessness and tragedy. Ben Macintyre, best-selling author of Agent Zigzag, tells the story of David Stirling, the eccentric young officer who was given permission by Churchill to recruit the most ruthless soldiers he could find, thereby founding the most mysterious military organisation […]

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• 139. SPIES AND SECRET AGENTS: IN FICTION AND REAL LIFE
  Ben Macintyre, Charles Cummings, Charlie Higson ( 2017 )
  Published: 20th Oct 2021

  Charlie Higson is the best-selling author of the Young Bond series of novels, and Ben Macintyre the author of a number of best-selling books about real spies of World War II and the Cold War. Here they come together with spy novelist Charlie Cumming to discuss secret agents, real and imaginary, in a highly entertaining […]

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• 160. A SPY AMONG FRIENDS: KIM PHILBY AND THE GREAT BETRAYAL
  Ben Macintyre ( 2014 )
  Published: 13th Dec 2021

  With access to newly released MI5 files, Ben Macintyre unlocks perhaps the last great secret of the Cold War. A story of intimate duplicity, loyalty, trust and treachery about the most notorious British defector and mole in history, Kim Philby is revealed as agent, double agent, traitor and enigma, and betrayer of secret Allied operations […]

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